Why I Wrote this Blog

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I make no apologies for the initial reason for writing which was purely for some creative therapy! And this works. I get to absorb myself in the writing, sometimes going 'there,' so you can see the true side of MS.

However, by proxy,  something else quickly developed when I first began writing. When I look back at my career, indeed all the roles I have undertaken since the age of fifteen, I've always helped people. As cliched as this sounds, I have! This very easily translated into this blog.  It is so important to me that I help others better understand MS, be it their own or that of others

I wrote this blog for me and now I write this for both you and I. 6,500 of you have dropped by to read my wonderings, and I really appreciate it. I hope you get something from them too.

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